A nice surprise in Things

After 6 months of following the process from the Task and Project Management course, the only item in my Things Today view was my start-the-day routine. No category reviews or other cruft. A treat. 😃

I've been diligent about pushing less-important category reviews out to a longer repeat interval. They must have 'shaken out' to the right cadence now. I didn't want to get review fatigue – I'd rather see them less, but spend quality time when we're together.

And I'm getting better at not dumping tasks in Today and letting them pile up because everything is urgent (it's not) and I'll do it all today (I won't). I'm careful with Today now and try to schedule achievable to-dos so it (me) doesn't get sad.

It's weird that I don't have any to-dos in there though. But we just finished a big project so I'm being nice to myself this week.

A screenshot of Lucy's Today view in the Things app with only her start-the-day routine showing.
Figure 0196A. An almost-empty Today view in Lucy's Things app - what a treat.

This left me feeling organised and smug

Until I went to join our first Small Business Zoom call at 6am. And Zoom wouldn't let me in until I'd done a large software update that took ages. And made me late and feel unprofessional. Now I'm the annoying person on Zoom who isn't organised (my sincere apologies to Lyra).

And so I return to my Things-safety-net with my tail between my legs and add a new repeating task in 14 Technology so it won't happen again.1

A screenshot of Lucy's Things app with a new repeating task that says Open Zoom regularly and ensure it’s up to date, or else.
Figure 0196B. A new repeating task to ensure Zoom stays up to date.

Footnotes

  1. Note that this repeating task will always appear in Today even if the overall category-review interval for 14 Technology isn't as often. ↩